By Chris McGovern – The Conservative Woman 02/10/2020 “… These days, boys are rarely seen as being as deserving as girls when it comes to ‘care and attention’. We live in an age when victimhood status is conferred more readily on females than on males. …” Read the entire article: https://conservativewoman.co.uk/we-need-to-talk-about-the-boys/
Author: The Boys Initiative
The HPV Guide For Men
By Sarah Sloat – Inverse 01/27/2020 “… The conversation around HPV is changing, albeit slowly. More people know that it’s equally important for young men and young women to be vaccinated. But HPV can affect older men, too — and, all too often, the first time they find out about HPV is when it is READ MORE
How do we encourage boys to learn languages?
By Bobbie Mills – Tes 01/28/2020 “… Research published this week, by the Education Policy Institute (EPI), commissioned by the British Council, found that girls are more than twice as likely as boys to enter and secure a pass in a modern foreign language. …” Read the entire article: https://www.tes.com/news/how-do-we-encourage-boys-learn-languages
I worry for my teenage boys – the beauty standards for young men are out of control
By Emma Beddington – The Guardian 01/28/2020 “… From men’s magazines to the chiselled gods of Love Island, boys are inundated with messages to both bulk up and moisturise. It all reminds me of my own youth, much of it wasted on bulimia. …” Read the entire article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/28/i-worry-for-my-teenage-boys-the-beauty-standards-for-young-men-are-out-of-control
How Strengthening Relationships with Boys Can Help Them Learn
By Deborah Farmer Kris – KQED 01/29/2020 “… To support boys in our classrooms, Reichert points to one robust, consistent finding from his 30 years of research: boys are relational learners. They learn best in the context of strong, supportive relationships. …” Read the entire article: https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54878/how-strengthening-relationships-with-boys-can-help-them-learn
Boys needs special attention
By Paul Golding – Santa Fe New Mexican 02/02/2020 “… Because of their innate slower developmental timetable and because they suffer the vast majority of neurodevelopmental disorders, boys need to be carefully attended to in the preschool expansion process. …” Read the entire article: https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/boys-needs-special-attention/article_840b615a-4137-11ea-92fa-9f08d28a9fd9.html
A Tale of Two Charts
By Robert Franklin – Men’s E-News 01/21/2020 “… It’s a highly informative chart, particularly if one assumes, as the zeitgeist has it, that men are privileged and women oppressed. If Perry’s chart is any indication, much the opposite is true. Perry’s chart indicates that, if anything, it’s men and boys who need our attention and READ MORE
Girls are ‘more than twice as likely’ as boys to achieve a pass in a language GCSE
By Eleanor Busby – Independent 01/26/2020 “… The report says that the government must urgently address the “persisting gender gap” within modern foreign languages and set out how it plans to tackle the underrepresentation of boys. …” Read the entire article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/girls-boys-gender-gap-gcses-languages-british-council-education-policy-institute-a9300761.html
Moms Show Gender Bias Against Emotional Expression in Boys. But Why?
By Jan Monnier – Fatherly 01/10/2020 “… And then the part where daughter’s expressing anger was more acceptable than sons expression anger, well, we had hypothesized that parents would expect boys to show more anger than girls and we found the opposite for that. …” Read the entire article: https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/moms-gender-bias-boys-emotions/
Body Issues Affect Our Boys, Too
By Momtastic 01/21/2020 “… The thing is, body issues don’t only pertain to our girls. Our boys struggle too. Sometimes their insecurities are harder to recognize. They might choose bigger clothing or layers to hide their thinness, or extra weight. …” Read the entire article: https://www.momtastic.com/health/773733-body-issues-affect-our-boys-too/